Sonic Boom

The Tickle Fight

Amy was juggling. Again.

Sonic watched the pink hedgehog from the doorway, his arms folded. He resisted the urge to roll his eyes. When she wasn't studying ancient hieroglyphics or baking cookies, Amy spent much of her spare time tossing those multicoloured balls up and down, back and forth, somehow managing to never drop a single one. As impressive as her talent was, it had begun to annoy Sonic after a while. To him, it was like having someone drumming their fingers on a table or humming the same tune over and over.

Her back to him, Amy was unaware of Sonic's presence as of yet, which gave the blue blur an idea. With a mischievous grin on his face, Sonic tiptoed up behind Amy, paused to see if she had noticed him and, once satisfied that she was oblivious, proceeded to tickle her under the arms.

The reaction was instant. Amy let out a high pitched yelp and dropped her juggling balls all over the floor, whirling around to face her friend. "Sonic!" she exclaimed, annoyed. She placed her hands on her hips and stared disapprovingly at the blue hedgehog.

"What?" Sonic asked, casually straightening his brown kerchief. "I was just messing around."

"Yeah, but you scared the living daylights out of me!"

"Oh, you're just pouting because now I know your weak spot."

"What d'you mean, my 'weak spot'?" Amy demanded.

"The spot where you're most ticklish," Sonic said, grinning slyly. Amy was about to retort in anger, but then a thought occurred to her and she returned the wicked smile.

"Is that a fact?" she asked, her voice dangerously sweet. "Well, then I can't help but wonder where your weak spot might be, Sonic The Hedgehog."

Sonic's face fell instantly, his eyes widening. He started to back away. "Amy, no," he said flatly, looking more worried as Amy started to slowly advance on him. "I'm… not ticklish."

It was a feeble lie and his behaviour had already confirmed it. "Oh, really?" Amy asked in mock surprise. "Then I guess you won't mind if I do THIS!"

Sonic cried out as Amy suddenly leapt at him, tackling him to the floor and pinning him down. "No, wait!" he pleaded desperately as Amy started to tickle him all over, experimenting to try and find his weakest point. The blue blur howled with a mixture of dismay and uncontrollable laughter.

"Come on, where's that spot…?" Amy wondered aloud, moving up from Sonic's feet to his hips, then to his underarms, trying every likely spot she could think of. She stopped at Sonic's neck and thought she saw true horror flicker across his face for the most fleeting of moments. She grinned. She had found it.

"No! Amy, please don't!" Sonic begged, sounding uncharacteristically pathetic. "Not under the chin! ANYWHERE BUT THERE!"

The next few moments were completely hectic, the two hedgehogs caught in a bizarre flurry of struggling that was comparable to wrestling and a game of Twister combined. Amy fought to tickle Sonic's neck while Sonic desperately tried to squirm away. Getting desperate, Sonic stopped trying to push Amy off of him and instead reached up to tickle Amy's underarms again. She yelped and rolled onto the floor beside Sonic, who quickly scrambled up to pin her down and tickle her all over.

"Oh, no!" Amy shrieked, alarmed at how her actions had backfired. "Sonic! SONI-A-HA-HA-HAAAA!" She felt helpless as the blue blur tickled her silly. She tried to tickle him back and from there, it was an all-out tickle fight that went on for a good three more minutes. It ended abruptly when Tails walked in.

"Stop. Seriously, STOP! I'm gonna wet myself!" Amy gasped.

"Look who's talking!" Sonic responded as Amy reached up to tickle him under the chin once more. "Oh, no, NOT AGAIN!"

Tails cleared his throat and the two hedgehogs froze, Sonic with his hands at Amy's underarms and Amy holding up Sonic's chest with both hands like she was a carjack. They stared at the yellow fox, suddenly very aware of how awkward this must look to him. They hurriedly moved away from each other, getting to their feet and looking embarrassed.

"Uh, we were just…" Amy started nervously.

"Uh, yeah, we… You know, just messin' around." Sonic said, hoping his face wasn't turning red. Tails was probably already interpreting this the wrong way without a sign like that.

"Were you having a tickle fight?" the two tailed fox asked at last.

Relief flowed through Sonic and Amy. "Yeah," Sonic admitted, chuckling awkwardly. "For a minute there, we thought you might've gotten the wrong idea."

"Nah, I know you two. You're not the types to make advances on one another like that," Tails said with a shrug. "My cousin used to draw me into tickle fights all the time. It was kind of one sided, though, seeing as I was so very ticklish…" He trailed off when he saw Sonic and Amy exchange knowing looks.

"You're ticklish?" Amy asked, unable to hide her growing mischievous grin.

"I was! A long while back!" Tails said desperately, stumbling for the doorway. He looked like he had seen a ghost. "Uh, what's that, Knuckles?" he said loudly, pretending to have heard the echidna call. "You and Sticks need my help? Right, coming!"

"You thinking the same thing I am?" Sonic asked Amy as Tails fled.

"You know it," Amy said. "Let's get him."

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